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Theological Treatises on the Trinity

Vol. 69

by Marius Victorinus

  • Paperback
  • 371 pages
  • Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm

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Marius Victorinus, a contemporary of St. Ambrose and one who had considerable influence on St. Augustine--he has been styled ""an Augustine before Augustine""--is an important Fourth-Century Neoplatonist. Before his conversion to Christianity Marius Victorinus wrote commentaries on works of Cicero and translated Aristotle's tracts on logic and some Neoplatonic books into Latin. After his conversion, probably A.D. 354, he turned his vast learning to the composition of theological treatises in refutation of Arianism and the errors of Ursacius and Valens expressed in the Creed of Sirminum (357) as well as those of Basil of Ancyra and of the Homoeans in the credos of Sirmium and Rimini in 359. The Theological Treatises on the Trinity contain the following: two letters, one from Candidus the Arian to the Rhetor Marius Victrorinus and the addressee's reply. Both documents are quite probably literary devices helping to bring into sharp focus the matters under discussion. These are followed by four books Against Arius, a short treatise demonstrating the necessity of accepting the term homoousios (of the same substance), and three Hymns, mostly in strophic structure, addressed to the Trinity and explaining the names and functions of the divine Persons in salvation history. In the Treatises Marius Victorinus adopts, in addition to the then traditional arguments, Neoplatonic concepts--adapted probably from Porphyry--to present a systematic explanation of the Trinity. Posthumous influences of the Treatises are discernible in works of Alcuin. The present translation is made from the latest critical text and has profited greatly from the vast erudition of Pierre Henry and Paul Hadot.
Theological Treatises on the Trinity and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityTheological Treatises on the Trinity

  • Author

    Marius Victorinus

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The Catholic University of America Press

  • Published

    January 1981

  • Weight

    473g

  • Page Count

    371

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813210902

  • ISBN-10

    0813210909

  • Eden Code

    4326449

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